Dan Fogelberg-Sutter's Mill

先来了解一段历史。1848年1月24日，詹姆斯·W·马歇尔在萨克拉门托的萨特磨坊附近发现金块，由此引发了加利福尼亚淘金潮。至1855年大约有三十万人从美国和世界各地来到美国加利福尼亚州追逐黄金梦。虽然很多的黄金被发现，一部分人成为暴发户，但是许多人都空手而归。

Dan Fogelberg的这首歌曲用叙事的方式讲述了这段往事。清新的老乡村民谣，木吉他、口琴、温暖的声音，虽然略感忧伤，但整首歌曲透露出浓浓的人文关怀。并且借此表达了一种对人生的思考，让人回味。

Dan Fogelberg，1951年8月13日生于伊利诺州，2007年因前列腺癌病逝于缅因州的家，享年56岁。其音乐风格横跨民谣、乡村、摇滚，而且充满诗意，因此拥有“民谣诗人”的美称。

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歌曲：Sutter's Mill
歌手：Dan Fogelberg
专辑：High Country Snows

In the Spring of Forty-seven,
So the story, it is told,
Old John Sutter went to the mill site
Found a piece of shining gold.

Well, he took it to the city
Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd
Left that stone in the river bed.

For they came like herds of locusts
Every woman, child and man
In their lumbering Conestogas
They left their tracks upon the land.

Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance
And some would curse John Sutter's Mill.

Well, they came from New York City,
And they came from Alabam'
With their dreams of finding fortunes
In this wild unsettled land.

Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows
As they tried to cross the plains.
And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
With their hands froze to the reins.

Oh...

Well, some pushed on to California
And others stopped to take their rest.
And by the Spring of Eighteen-sixty
They had opened up the west.

And then the railroad came behind them
And the land was plowed and tamed,
When Old John Sutter went to meet his maker,
He'd not one penny to his name.

Oh...

And some would curse John Sutter's Mill
Some men's thirsts are never filled.